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BOLING BOLING FESTIVAL (Catanauan, Quezon)

This festival of laughter serves as a prelude to the Lenten season, and features uninhibited merrymaking and dressing up, prior to the solemnity marked by Ash Wednesday.  The townsfolk believe that by rejoicing,  they will ward off spirits that bring about illness, hardship, and the loss of hope.  The pyramid-like structure [...]

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CARAGAN FESTIVAL (Mabalacat, Pampanga)

This month-long town fiesta, timed in honor of the feast of Nuestra Senora de Gracia,  is actually held in honor of the aboriginal Aeta chieftain named Caragan,  who married a Mabalacat resident named Laureana Tolentino.   The event highlights the celebration of traditional Aeta culture.   Their float is made of improvised “lahar” material [...]

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PANAGBENGA FESTIVAL (Baguio City, Benguet)

From the Cordillera Administrative Region, we have the famous flower festival which showcases the myriad blooms for which the city has become famous.   2009  is  Baguio’s centennial year, and to celebrate their culture of caring, they have sent Cordillera warriors garbed in traditional weave and maidens wearing the four-colored wings of [...]

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2009 Float COMPETITION GUIDELINES
1. Concept or theme for the floats must depict Filipino culture, values and tradition.

2. Each contingent wil……

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Aliwan Festival 2009 Schedule of Activitites
Aliwan Fiesta 2009 will be held on April 23-25.  It will feature competitions in Festival Streetdance, Float Design, and Festival Queen (Reyna ng Aliwan).The three-day event culminates in a grand parade that kicks off in front of the Aliw Theater, CCP Complex and winds up at Quirino Grandstand, where a star-studded awarding ceremony caps the [...]

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The Country’s Grandest, biggest and most colourful event this summer will be apploude once again – the 7thAliwan Fiesta -

This year, the Aliwan 2009 is slated on……….

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This are the winners of sinulog 2009 ..
first place winners (both SB and FI) will receive P500,000 each; second placers, P400,000; third, P300,000; fourth, P200,000 and fifth, P100,000. Choreographers of winning contingents get P30,000 (first); P20,000 (second); P15,000 (third); P10,000, fourth; and P5,000 (fifth). The best in street dancing gets P500,000 (first); P300,000 (second) and [...]

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